Sham's The Enemy Within

Cult of the Purple Hand

A secret organization that seems to believe that Alric Konrad is Kastor Lieberung, a member of theirs, and has the 20,000 crowns that Lieberung promised to fetch them from Bögenhafen. Not much is known about this group other than that they are well financed and large, with its members popping up to harrass Alric in Altdorf, Weissbruck and Kemperbad. There also appear to be members in Middenheim since that is where Lieberung’s gold was supposed to be delivered. There was also a suggestion that Lieberung himself might have had dealings in Marienburg in relation to the Carcinus Populi cult.

The cult has two known symbols. One is a seal, usually in purple wax, of a raised hand. The other is a gesture (seen above) that members seem to use to reveal themselves to other members. Alric has been marked by cultists twice since becoming mistaken for Lieberung, once with purple dye on his hand when he shook a cultist’s hand, and once more permanently when a cultist cast a curse on him that turned his whole left hand purple.